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All Jobs Are Important

Honestly, I had never heard of the term “job shaming” until a few weeks ago.

That’s when photos of Geoffrey Owens went viral. Owens, in case you don’t know, is a former actor on The Cosby Show sitcom from 1985 to 1992.

Like many actors, his fortunes have risen and fallen, and he now works at the grocery store chain, Trader Joe’s, to “put food on the table.”

It was there that a shopper snapped a photo of Owens packing grocery bags at the checkout and offered to sell the photo to celebrity websites wanting to “out” him — and in essence shame the former actor for working such a “lowly” job.

Thankfully, there was a great backlash in the traditional media and on social media toward this woman’s mean-spirited actions.